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A reluctant goodbye to Guardian Local

Posted on April 28, 2011

ScraperWiki is sad to hear that Guardian Local is being wound down, just over a year after its public launch. We’ve had the good fortune to work with the talented Guardian Local journalists at three of our Hacks & Hackers … Continue reading →

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Hacks & Hackers Glasgow: the BBC College of Journalism video

Posted on April 12, 2011

Last month we celebrated the final leg of our UK & Ireland Hacks & Hackers tour in Glasgow, at an event hosted by BBC Scotland and supported by BBC College of Journalism and Guardian Open Platform. You can read more … Continue reading →

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Hacks & Hackers Cardiff: the video

Posted on April 5, 2011

Gavin Owen, a recent postgraduate student at the Skillset Media Academy Wales, has produced this excellent video from the Hacks & Hackers Hack Day in Cardiff last month. Read about the projects here, and watch what the journalists and programmers … Continue reading →

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New event! Hacks & Hackers Glasgow (#hhhglas)

Posted on February 22, 2011

Calling journalists, bloggers, programmers and designers in Scotland! Scraperwiki is pleased to announce another hacks & hackers hack day: in Glasgow. BBC Scotland is hosting and sponsoring the one day event, with support from BBC College of Journalism. As with … Continue reading →

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New event! Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Cardiff (#hhhCar)

Posted on February 9, 2011

The UK Hacks & Hackers tour carries on – into 2011. Our first stop: Wales. Scraperwiki, which provides award-winning tools for screen scraping,data mining and visualisation, will hold a one day practical hack day* at the Atrium in Cardiff on … Continue reading →

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Belfast Hacks & Hackers – the video

Posted on December 13, 2010

As we’ve previously reported, the Belfast Hacks and Hackers Hack Day in November was a great success with some brilliant projects emerging, and we’re thrilled to post this video, courtesy of the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the … Continue reading →

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Scraperwiki launches first student event in Liverpool

Posted on November 1, 2010

Following on from the success of the professional Liverpool Hacks and Hackers event in July, Scraperwiki, in partnership with Open Labs, is running a “Student Edition” of the Hacks and Hackers Hack Day for students from both LJMU’s School of … Continue reading →

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Video: Leeds Hacks & Hackers Hack Day

Posted on October 29, 2010

Here are a few video interviews from yesterday’s Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Leeds, with various participants and Sarah Hartley from Guardian Local. Follow this link for a write-up of all the projects.

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Leeds Hacks and Hackers Hack Day: Planning maps; cutting up Leeds; researching brownfield; and finding the city’s blogging pulse

Posted on October 29, 2010

It was to West Yorkshire for the fifth stop on Scraperwiki’s UK & Ireland Hacks & Hacker tour, at Old Broadcasting House in the excellent city of Leeds. A varied crowd turned out for yesterday’s hack day hosted by nti … Continue reading →

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Hacks/Hackers London meetup to discuss Iraq War logs

Posted on October 26, 2010

Scraperwiki will be supporting the November Hacks/Hackers London meetup at 7pm on Wednesday 24th November 2010 at The Irish Club, 2-4 Tudor Street, EC4Y 0AA, London. A few tickets are still available, but places are filling fast. Information and booking … Continue reading →

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